Events tagged as: NHS reform

The NHS Information Revolution conference

Using information to improve quality
This conference explored the proposed information revolution in the NHS and considered how to overcome the technical and cultural challenges to implementing the information strategy.

Beyond Dilnot: a new future for social care?

With a White Paper expected later this year, this conference brought together a platform of key policy designers and decision-makers to deliberate the future of social care provision.

Reducing unwarranted variations in health care

This event looked at how patterns of variations can support health professionals to meet the QIPP challenges of £20 billion efficiency savings by 2014/15.

Health and wellbeing board summit

Shaping local services around the needs of communities
Our health and wellbeing board summit provided insights from early implementers and considered some of the key challenges around building new relationships with GP consortia and creating successful governance and accountability arrangements.

Public health system reform summit

Getting the balance right
The second summit in our changing the health care landscape series considered some of the core challenges and solutions to successful public health reform.

The role of integrated care

NHS and public service reform event series
Our final NHS and public service reform breakfast event offered a timely opportunity to discuss the role of integrated care and how it can address the challenges facing the NHS.

Social enterprise summit

Bridging co-operation and competition in the NHS?
This summit was the first in a series considering reforms to local health systems and changes in power and alignment between local authorities, the third sector and the NHS.

The future of social care funding

With a keynote address from the Minister of State for Care Services, Paul Burstow MP, our breakfast event with Age UK considered the future of social care funding.

Supporting independent living

Engaging health and social care in new technologies
This invitation only summit, was jointly run with the Technology Strategy Board, and provided information on the DALLAS programme, looking at approaches to supporting independent living for frail older people and people with long-term conditions.

Any willing provider

NHS and public service reform event series
Our second NHS and public service reform event focused on how diversity of supply can benefit the NHS and patients, the potential risks associated with it and how policy can be successfully implemented.

NHS Leadership and Management Summit

This summit launched the findings of the Commission on Leadership and Management in the NHS, and showcased the very best of leadership and change management in the NHS.

GP Pathfinder Consortia Development Conference

Preparing for the commissioning challenges ahead
Through a series of high profile presentations and practically-based case studies, this conference examined the challenges and potential pitfalls associated with recent NHS reforms.

Choice and competition

NHS and public service reform event series
Discussions at our first NHS and public service reform breakfast event focused on choice and competition in the context of wider health reforms.

Integrated care: realising the vision

Practical actions to improve outcomes
This major one-day conference brought together experts from the United States and England to consider the practicalities of integrated health and social care.

English health reform

What can we learn from Europe?
Experts from elsewhere in the UK and Europe joined us to discuss the health reforms in England and launch the European Health Observatory of Health Systems and Policies' health system profile for England.

Nudging improvements in public health

A Big Society breakfast event
The third event in the Big Society and health series covered the implications of the government's public health White Paper and the potential for nudge to prompt behavioural change.

Improving NHS productivity: making it happen

This conference was aimed at helping health care leaders at national and local levels to select and implement strategies which produce more value from the same or similar resource rather than simply doing more of the same.

Patient power or professional capture?

A Big Society breakfast event
The second event in our Big Society series examined how the government's health reforms aiming to put patients at the heart of the NHS will link to the wider Big Society vision.

The King's Fund Annual Conference 2010

Improving health care in tough times
This year, our Annual Conference explored opportunities for ways of funding, organising and delivering care that cross professional and organisational boundaries.

GP commissioning

Will commissioning consortia be able to 'make' as well as 'buy' services?
This event aims to provide GP and key health professionals with insight and guidance on GP commissioning.

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